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"When Kathy goes to Haiti for a holiday, she discovers that every man she meets wants to be her boyfriend. She dives into a sexual whirlpool in pursuit of love, craving more and more sex -- for once is never enough." [jacket blurb]

"Kathy Goes to Haiti was my attempt to make money through writing by writing a porn novel. ...I decided to write a novel that, while seeming to have a story, had none and whose characters were so deprived of psychology as to almost not exist. I wanted to stick a knife, a little one, up the ass of the novel.

"Kathy Goes to Haiti was mathematically composed: every other chapter is a porn chapter; each chapter, except for the central one, mirrors its facing chapter. Mirrors are a significant part of the Voodoo cosmogony. Kathy Goes to Haiti was also my version both of a Nancy Drew book (an American girls' book) and of a travel journal." --Kathy Acker (in the introduction to Young Lust, 1988).

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